Abhijit Guha (anthropologist)
Abhijit Guha (born 1956 in Kolkata) is an Indian anthropologist.[1]
Career
Guha studied anthropology at the University of Calcutta to Masters level, and was an ICSSR scholar at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, researching the Bengali kinship system.[1]
Guha then taught and studied at Vidyasagar University in Medinipur, West Bengal for some thirty years. He was first employed by the university in 1985, appointed reader in 1998, took his Ph.D. in 2002 (his thesis was titled Land acquisition among the cultivators of rural Medinipur: an anthropological appraisal), and retired as a full professor in 2016. He was a senior fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata from 2018 to 2020.[1]
Guha was invited to the Lok Sabha as an expert participant during the drafting of land acquisition and resettlement amendment legislation in 2007-2008.[2][3]
Selected publications
Some of Guha's notable publications include:
- Land, Law, and the Left: The Saga of Disempowerment of the Peasantry in the Era of Globalization. Concept Publishing Company. 2007. ISBN 978-81-8069-398-4.
- Tarak Chandra Das: The Unsung Hero of Indian Anthropology. Delhi: Studera Press. 2016. ISBN 978-93-85883-01-9.[4][5]
- Nation-building in Indian Anthropology: Beyond the Colonial Encounter. Manohar Publishers & Distributors. 2022. ISBN 978-93-91928-73-5.[6][7][8]
- Encountering Land Grab: An Ethnographic Journey. Routledge. 2022. ISBN 978-1-000-58897-2.[9]
References
- ^ a b c Guha, Abhijit (1 January 2024). "CURRICULUM VITAE OF ABHIJIT GUHA". academia.edu. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ Nath, Suman; Bhattacharya, Debraj (19 September 2021). Theory, Policy, Practice: Development and Discontents in India. Taylor & Francis. p. 1998. ISBN 978-1-000-43591-7. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ D'Costa, Anthony P.; Chakraborty, Achin (2017). The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition. Oxford University Press. p. xx. ISBN 978-0-19-879244-4.
- ^ Srivastava, V.K. (2016). "Review of Tarak Chandra Das: An Unsung Hero of Indian Anthropology. Studera Press: Delhi 2016, by Abhijit Guha". The Eastern Anthropologist. 69 (2): 246–249.
- ^ Chatterji, Roma (3 July 2017). "Tarak Chandra Das: An Unsung Hero of Indian Anthropology, by Abhijit Guha". Anthropological Forum. 27 (3): 280–281. doi:10.1080/00664677.2016.1265271. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ Dash Sharma, P. (2022). "Book Review" (PDF). South Asian Anthropologist. 22 (2): 181–183. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ Singh, Ravinder (2023). "Reviews/Recensioni" (PDF). Antrocom Online Journal of Anthropology. 19 (2). ISSN 1973-2880. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ Bandyopadhyay, Sumahan (2022). "BOOK REVIEW" (PDF). Man in India. 102 (3–4): 459–461. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ Yadav, Krishna Kant (2023). "Review of Encountering Land Grab: An Ethnographic Journey". Indian Anthropologist. 53 (1/2): 186–188. ISSN 0970-0927. JSTOR 27310901. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
External links
- Profile on Google Scholar
- Profile on ResearchGate
- Profile on Vidwan
- Anthropology in India: a historical exploration | Guest lecture by Prof. Abhijit Guha on YouTube, courtesy of the Anthropos India Foundation